Michel Bréal
Michel Bréal · Philosophy & Social Sciences
French philologist regarded as the founder of modern semantics.
1832, Landau, Rhenish Bavaria (now Germany) — 1915, Paris, France
France
Michel Bréal is recognized among Jewish contributors to Philosophy & Social Sciences — French philologist regarded as the founder of modern semantics.
Michel Bréal was a French philologist regarded as the founder of modern semantics, the study of meaning in language, which he named and defined in his 1897 Essai de sémantique. Professor of comparative grammar at the Collège de France, he also proposed the marathon race for the first modern Olympics. He was born to French-Jewish parents.
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French philologist regarded as the founder of modern semantics.
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